T. Lux Feininger

Jonny spielt auf! Alexander (Xanti) Schawinsky with the New Saxophone

   

Jonny spielt auf! Alexander (Xanti) Schawinsky mit Saxophon (Altsaxophonspieler, Torso)
Jonny spielt auf! Alexander (Xanti) Schawinsky with the New Saxophone Repro: MAIN
  • 1928, in Dessau
  • Negative untraceable; Copy-film negative produced by the artist 1980, inscr. upper right: 75, 120 x 90 mm

  • Prints known:
    1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1989, Inv. Nr.: 1989.1128, gelatin silver print, 111 x 83 mm. Verso inscr. by the artist: photo Lux Feininger, in red: x, o, white label: 75; further inscr.: Xanti Schawinsky mit dem neuen Saxophon [1928], red stamp: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
    2. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Inv. Nr.: SC1974.51.6, gelatin silver print, 113 x 83 mm
    3. Amsab-Institute of Social History, Ghent, Inv. Nr.: fo028386, vintage, gelatin silver print, 228 x 172 mm [detail], further inscr.: Lux Feininger, Elk 1col [?], and other notes
    4. Galerie Berinson, Berlin, vintage, gelatin silver print, 232 x 173 mm, hic entitled: Schawinsky on the saxophone*
    5. Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr. 2018/552.1-44, Tokayer Album (Photographs 1931-1939, size of object: 259 x 355 x 25 mm), firmly mounted on page 29, gelatin silver print, 104 x 78 mm

    Copy prints known:
    I. Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: 79635, reproduction from: bauhaus 2/1928

  • ["Jonny spielt auf" is an opera in two parts by Ernst Krenek, it was premiered on February 10, 1927 at the Neues Theater, Leipzig in a production by Walther Brügmann. Wikipedia August 25, 2022]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus

Exhibitions

Les Rencontres de la Photographie - La collection de l'AMSAB révélée. 2019 Arles

Bauhaus Modern. 2008 Northampton, MA

Dancing on the Roof - Photography and the Bauhaus 1923-1929. 2001 New York MET Exhibition Overview:
The work of the (then) adolescent student Lux Feininger, son of the painter and Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, was more lighthearted than that of the older master and theoretician Moholy-Nagy. Never without his camera, the young Lux, whose nickname is Latin for "light," roamed the school in search of activities he could transform into his characteristically exuberant views of student life, exemplified by the sprightly Jump over the Bauhaus (ca. 1927). He combined his love of photography and music in a suite of lively photographs of the Bauhaus jazz band; this includes an energetic rendering of his fellow band member Xanti Schawinsky with the New Saxophone (1928) and Charleston on the Bauhaus Roof (1927), a riff on youth and modern life. Like the spirited pictures that Jacques-Henri Lartigue made as a youth, Lux Feininger's photographs are witty, playful, irreverent, and extremely rare. With more than twenty of his photographs included, "Dancing on the Roof" provides an in-depth display of his best work—a "mini exhibition" of a remarkable photographer who is relatively unknown but still lively at the age of ninety.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2001/photography-and-the-bauhaus

Xanti Schawinsky - Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie. 1986 Berlin

T. Lux Feininger - Photographs of the Twenties and Thirties. 1980 New York, Nr. 2.

Das Bauhaus Dessau. 1929 Basel, Plakatmotiv - Basel, Gewerbemuseum: 21. April - 20. Mai 1929
- Breslau, Messegelände: 15. Juni - 29. September 1929
- Dessau, Bauhaus: 26. Januar - 2. Februar 1930
- Essen, Museum Folkwang: 16. Februar - 6. April 1930
- Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle: 4. Mai - 22. Juni 1930
- Zürich, Kunstgewerbemuseum: 20. Juli - 17. August 1930

Literature

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 - Facsimile Edition. Lars Müller 2019 Zürich / Berlin, bauhaus 2/3, 1928

Variétés - avant-garde, surréalisme et photographie 1928-1930. Damarice Amao, Xavier Canonne, Hendrik Ollivier, Kim Robensyn 2019 Gand/Ghent, S./p. 228, Abb./ill.

Der Sprung über das Bauhaus - Das photographische Werk von T. Lux Feininger. Ulrike Staroste 2012 Berlin, S./p. 99, 105. Abb./ill. 12.

Dancing on the Roof - Photography and the Bauhaus 1923-1929. 2001 New York, fig. 5

Xanti Schawinsky - Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie. Peter Hahn, Hans Heinz Holz, Barbara Paul, Dirk Scheper,  u.a./et al 1986 Berlin, S./p. 213, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus Photography. Egidio Marzona [Hg./ed.], Roswitha Fricke (Hg./ed.), Eugene Prakapas 1985 Cambridge, MA, S./p. 142

Bauhaus Fotografie. Roswitha Fricke (Hg./ed.), Ernő (Ernst) Kállai, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart 1982 Düsseldorf, S./p. 146 [Plakat/poster]

47 Bauhaus Fotographs 1927-1931. T. Lux Feininger 1980 New York, Nr. 2. Abb./ill.

Bauhaus and Bauhaus People. Eckhard Neumann [Hg./ed.], T. Lux Feininger, Walter Gropius,  u.a./et al 1970 New York, S./p. 191, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus Weimar 1919-25 - Dessau 1925-28. Herbert Bayer [Hg./ed.], Ise Gropius [Hg./ed.], Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], Alfred H. Barr, Alexander Dorner 1938 New York, S./p. 156, Abb./ill.

Bauhaus 1919-1928. Herbert Bayer [Hg./ed.], Ise Gropius [Hg./ed.], Walter Gropius [Hg./ed.], Alfred H. Barr, Alexander Dorner 1938 New York, S./p. 156. Abb./ill.

Tokayer-Album 1931-1939 Dessau u.a., S./p. 29, Abb./ill.

Das bauhaus dessau Ernő (Ernst) Kállai 1929 Basel, Titel/title

Bauhaus - 2/3. T. Lux Feininger 1928 Dessau, S./p. 29. Abb./ill.

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